Am 23.04.2014 23:36, schrieb Woody Suwalski: > Dave Airlie wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 1:59 AM, Linus Torvalds >> <torvalds at linux-foundation.org> wrote: >>> Dave, mind sending me a pull request for drm fixes? >>> >>> There's now at least these two: >>> >>> - "drm/radeon/aux: fix hpd assignment for aux bus" >>> - "drm/radeon: use fixed PPL ref divider if needed" >>> >>> that look like fairly fatal regressions when they affect somebody. >>> >>> The fact that we already had *two* independent bugs be reported within >>> days of that last out-of-merge-window pull request makes me very >>> unhappy with the state of drm pulls. >>> >>> So please make sure that future fixes really are *fixes*. For >>> regressions only. No more games like this. >> The pll fallout is fixes for the initial feature that was in the >> merge window, >> Tuning plls for monitors is always a pain in the ass, the previous >> algorithm >> took a couple of kernels a few years back to get where it was, >> unfortunately >> HDMI came along and showed up a bunch of its shortcomings. I'm happy >> Alex and Christian are on top of things in terms of tracking regressions >> and making sure they get fixed, >> >> the AUX fix yes I'm a bit pissed off about myself, but I missed a pull >> from a few >> weeks ago, felt guilty, and maybe should have chosen the other path >> and let it >> wait a merge, >> >> Christian just sent me a -fixes pull with all of these in it and I'll >> send it on to you >> in a few mins. >> >> Dave. >> > That patch also fixes a shimmering (water floating) issue on Radeon > RV635 (Thinkpad T500) > 1002:9591
Was this a long outstanding bug or a regression introduced with one of the recent patches? Thanks for the info, Christian.
